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As a child, Manuel de Falla used to play with puppets and act out the adventures of Don Quixote. When the Princesse de Polignac commissioned him to write a work for a chamber orchestra, it was unsurprising that the composer took inspiration from Cervantes' novel. The fragment chosen was the passa…

"The rays of the sun have vanquished the night, the power of the hypocrite has been destroyed": so ends Mozart's most mysterious opera, which premièred on 30 September 1791 in Vienna, just a few months before his death. The dual nature of the work- which Beethoven considered brought together all…